200 BONE-SPAVIN, RING-BONE, &C. 



Description of Bone-spavins and Ring-bones. 



CHAP. XXXVI. 



or THE BONE-SPAVIN, RING-BQNE, AND 

 SPLINTS. 



It will be needless to say much on the nature 

 of these complaints, as ihey are so well known to 

 every person who keeps horses. 



The bone-spavin is a Ijard excrescence, or 

 swelling, growing oq the inside of the hock ; such 

 as are on the lower p£|,rt of the hpck seldom give 

 the animal so much pain as those vrhich are seated 

 more deeply in tlie middle of the joint. Ring- 

 bones are hard swellings on the lower part of the 

 pastern, near the coronet, and, in general, extend 

 round the fore part of the foot, in form of a ring; 

 though it sometimes only appears on each side a 

 little above the coronet, and then is termed splin- 

 ters of a ring-bpne. This disease generally takes 

 its rise from the joining of the great and little pas- 



